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"Dearest Gerald," Anthea wrote, "The children are all being very good. They've grown fascinated with the glass factory at the end of the road; I told them they are not to bother the workers, but they may play in the piles of sand outside the factory if no-one tells them not to. The fine sand is such a nice, high-quality sort of sand that there is nothing better for playing in, they tell me, and I have so many fond childhood memories myself of playing in a sand-pit next to our house."

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A crossover between E. Nesbit’s Bastable and Psammead series. Every time the boys in Nesbit’s books about growing up to be soldiers, it hits me again that they’d get there just in time for the Great War. This story is my attempt to work that out.